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Effective August 1, 2015, the U.S. legal entity Rhein Chemie Corp. has merged into its parent LANXESS Corp. as the business unit Rhein Chemie Additives.

As of July 1, the new company of Chemours Co. officially spun off from DuPont.

Specialty chemicals manufacturer HCS Group announced the acquisition of Shu-Chem Holdings Inc. (Shu-Chem), a family-owned company headquartered in Manvel, TX.

Christine Batten, Account Development Manager in the company-owned stores group of PPG Architectural Coatings, U.S. and Canada, visited Woodstock High School to present a $1,000 PPG Industries Foundation check to science faculty members Kelly Burke and Karen Zayance, along with charter members of the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) club they sponsor.

To accommodate continued growth, Micro Powders has completed an expansion of its Tarrytown, NY, product development laboratory that triples the size of the previous space.

Ross Vice President of Corporate Operations Joseph Martorana announced the successful move of the company’s India operations into a new facility.

Paint and coatings manufacturer Akzo Nobel N.V. reported a second quarter with positive developments in profitability of all three business areas despite a challenging market environment.

BASF will form a global business unit (GBU) combining all of its pigments activities effective January 2016.

Exova Group plc, a testing, calibration and advisory services provider, has opened a new laboratory in Johor, Malaysia.

The Lubrizol Corp., Wickliffe, OH, has launched a new hyperdispersant reactor at its Avon Lake, OH, facility.